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This list showcases the top San Francisco based CEO’ operating in the Security space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
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Richard Ma
CEO of Quantstamp
CEO of Quantstamp, Venture Partner at Pioneer Fund, YCombinator Alumni, Former Quantitative Strategist at Tower Research Capital
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About Quantstamp: Leaders in Blockchain Security
Jim Dolce
CEO of Lookout
Jim Dolce is the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Lookout. He has been the founder of four successful technology companies and has held executive positions at both Juniper Networks, Inc. and Akamai Technologies, Inc. Jim joined Lookout in March 2014 to guide the cybersecurity company into its next stage of growth. That included re-architecting Lookout’s products, leadership, and workforce to serve large businesses and government agencies that seek to embrace the benefits of mobility without sacrificing security. In addition to his responsibilities at Lookout, Jim is a dedicated philanthropist. His Foundation supports education for groups that have historically been underserved in the STEM fields, including woman and students from low income areas, as well as programs providing essential services to veterans and military families. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from the University of Rhode Island.
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About Lookout: Lookout is a cybersecurity company that integrates endpoint security with SASE technologies to secure data while respecting user privacy.
David McJannet
CEO of HashiCorp
Dave has more than 15 years of extensive experience across a range of product marketing, product management, and operational functions. Prior to joining Hortonworks, Dave led the product marketing team at VMware for a number of technologies including the Cloud Foundry Platform as a Service project and the vFabric product family. Previously, Dave served as Group Manager, Server & Tools at Microsoft where his team had responsibility for the product marketing and overall performance of the Server and Tools business in Canada. Before joining Microsoft he held product management roles at webMethods (now SoftwareAG) with a primary focus on Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and middleware products. Dave began his career with KPMG and earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from McGill University.
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About Delphix, HashiCorp, Hortonworks: HashiCorp is a remote-first company that solves development, security, and operations challenges in infrastructure.
Moxie Marlinspike
Founder & CEO of Signal Messenger
Moxie Marlinspike is the founder of Signal and Open Whisper Systems. He is a renowned cyber security expert and cryptographer. Moxie is known for his in-depth research of online privacy and anonymity issues. Moxie is also a member of the Institute for Disruptive Studies, and was formerly the Director of Product Security at Twitter.
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About Signal Messenger: Signal is an encrypted communications application for Android and iOS that focuses on advancing secure communications.
Greg Kidd
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer of GlobaliD
Believer that ones identity credentials should be truly portable and owned by individuals themselves rather than corporations or governments. The trade-off between security and privacy can meet the needs of both traditional institutions worried about compliance and risk, but also consumer protection advocates who care about the underserved and underbanked. Adviser/Investor via hardyaka.com for numerous startups in the exchange space including Shift, Ripple and 3taps, and previously Square and Twitter. Previously a director at Promontory Financial and a senior analyst for payments at The Board of Governor of the Federal Reserve. Senior Associate at Booz Allen. Founded and took Dispatch Management Services Corp public on the NASDAQ. Have worked as an instructor/leader for Outward Bound and the National Outdoor Leadership School. Specialties: Portable identity, digital currencies and exchange markets for goods, services, and information with functional emphasis on messaging, payments, and reputation/trust/risk. Well versed in visualizations for risk reporting and controls.
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About Apto Payments, GlobaliD, Hard Yaka: Create and manage your own portable, digital identity with globaliD.
Joshua Motta
Co-Founder & CEO of Coalition
Joshua Motta is the CEO and co-founder of Coalition.
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About Coalition: Coalition operates as a cyber insurance and security company that helps businesses manage and mitigate cyber risks.
MacLane Wilkison
Co-Founder & CEO of NuCypher
MacLane Wilkison is the cofounder and CEO of NuCypher, a Y Combinator and Polychain Capital-backed company that provides decentralized key management and cryptographic access controls for decentralized applications. He is a software engineer and former investment banker at Morgan Stanley, where he provided M&A and financing services to enterprises in technology, media, and telecommunications. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), and certified Financial Risk Manager.
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About NuCypher: NuCypher is a cryptography company that builds privacy-preserving infrastructure and protocols.
Dave Krauthamer
CEO of QuSecure
Dave Krauthamer is an Information systems executive who is an experienced CEO, CIO, CTO, CRO, CMO, CSO and serves as a Board Member and Chairman of the Digital Disruption Group at the Band of Angels. He has created and sold award-winning companies in addition to teaching university-level courses in information technology. Dave holds a degree in Computer Science. He loves working with people and is passionate about helping companies create incredible products, amazing brands, powerful marketing stories, and high-performance sales teams He has extensive experience in Quantum Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Product Innovation, Marketing, Sales, M&A, in addition to a wide background in the implementation of enterprise-wide systems. Dave currently serves as CEO of QuSecure and the founder of Quantum Thought. Quantum Thought is a premier quantum computing launchpad for the founding generation of quantum computing companies, as well as the generations to follow. The mission of Quantum Thought is to create, incubate, launch and guide amazing quantum companies and foundational technologies that will enable other companies to enter in a New Age. He is also the founder of NEURAL SALES an intelligent (AI) solution that evaluates all aspects of your market in real-time and learns from your interactions, successes, and setbacks. Prior to that, Dave created an award-winning company named Intelenex which became a leading partner in the transformation of Corporate Systems to the Cloud. Intelenex was recognized as Oracle’s Top Cloud ERP Sales Partner in 2015. Closing the year by selling almost 50% more Cloud ERP licenses than any other partner. Intelenex was also acknowledged as being one of the fastest-growing service companies in the country by Inc. Magazine ranking 364 out of the top 5000. The company was sold in July of 2015. He has managed the implementation of global networks and enterprise data architectures. He has taught university-level courses in Information Technology and has been a key industry contact for the Wall Street Journal, Computer World and PC Week. Dave Krauthamer holds a B.S. in Computer Science and has completed executive programs at Stanford and Cal Tech.
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About Band of Angels, Neural Edge, Quantum Thought, QuSecure: QuSecure is bringing vital quantum security and communication products that secure enterprise and government in the quantum computing era.
Kevin Gosschalk
Founder & CEO of Arkose Labs
Kevin Gosschalk is the founder of Arkose Labs.
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About Arkose Labs, Forbes Technology Council: Arkose Labs provides fraud prevention, anti-spam, and abuse analysis for businesses, companies, and industries.
Guy Caspi
CEO & Co-Founder of Deep Instinct
Guy Caspi is a leading mathematician and a data scientist global expert. Guy Caspi has 15 years of extensive experience in applying mathematics and machine learning in a technology elite unit of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), financial institutions and intelligence organizations around the world. Guy Caspi led some of the largest government cyber and Big Data projects in Israel and other countries. In addition, Guy Caspi was the president and general manager of a leading division at Comverse/Verint Group. Guy Caspi brings substantial management background in leading innovative technological challenges from R&D through commercialization. Guy Caspi holds B.Sc., M.Sc., and MBA degrees in Mathematics, Machine Learning and Business from leading universities in Israel and the U.S.
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About Deep Instinct, Forbes Technology Council: Deep Instinct applies deep learning to cybersecurity, offering zero-day attack protection.
Ivan Novikov
Founder & CEO of Wallarm
Ivan Novikov serves as an advisor at ElectroNeek.
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About Wallarm: End-to-end API Security for the Modern Teams
Fujimoto Shigeo
CEO of Synapse
Fujimoto Shigeo is the CEO at Synapse.
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About Synapse: Synapse is a banking platform that enables companies to provide financial products to their customers.
Karthik Krishnan
Founder and CEO of Concentric AI
Karthik Krishnan is currently Founder/ CEO, Concentric. Prior to Concentric, he was VP, Security Products at Aruba/HPE where he managed their security portfolio that included the Niara acquisition and their network access control product lines. He was part of the founding team and VP, Products at Niara, a security analytics company focused on user and entity behavior analytics. Niara was acquired by Aruba/HPE in 2017. He has more than 15 years of experience in engineering and marketing at various hardware, software and systems such as Intel, Microsoft, Juniper Networks, PGP Corporation and Embrane. He has a Bachelors in engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India and an MBA with distinction from the Kellogg School of Management, where was an F.C. Austin Scholar.
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About Concentric AI: Concentric AI delivers data risk assessment, monitoring, and protection for corporate data.
Mahmoud Abdelkader
CEO & Co-Founder of Very Good Security
Mahmoud and Marshall started Very Good Security to solve recurring data security and privacy challenges faced by organizations in regulated and/or compliant environments. Today’s modern organizations face ever-changing data security challenges in an evolving landscape and require an adaptive approach to cyber security to augment security infrastructure investments. Mahmoud co-founded and served as the CTO of a a YCominbator W2011 company, Balanced Payments, a leading-edge developer friendly payments processor acquired in 2015. He is also an active angel investor, serves as an advisor to numerous FinTech startups, and is an avid fan of cryptography. Mahmoud holds a BSc in Computer Engineering from University of Maryland: College Park. A fun fact is that actually learned to code by reverse engineering Age of Empires and Warcraft III.
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About Very Good Security: Very Good Security is a fintech & data security enablement platform helping to maximize the value of data without compliance & breach risk.
Bjoern Zinssmeister
CEO & Founder of Templarbit
Bjoern is the Co-Founder and CTO of Design Inc. He is best known for his work with building community platforms like Match and Synack. Bjoern has spent more than a decade as a software engineer and built two venture backed startups from the ground up. Prior to Design Inc. Bjoern worked as a mobile lead for Match Group (Match, Tinder, OKCupid) and was instrumental in helping Match establish their labs office in San Francisco prior to their IPO and acquisition of OK Cupid. Bjoern went on to lead engineering at YCombinator backed Userfox, which was later acquired by Adroll. In September of 2013 Bjoern joined Synack as their Director of Engineering and helped to build up their engineering team from the ground up, helping the company to grow and raise successful A and B rounds. Originally from Germany, Bjoern graduated from the Trier University of Applied Sciences with a degree in Computer Science before moving out to San Francisco to pursue his work with startups.
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About Templarbit: Templarbit protects applications from malicious activity.
Derek Collison
Founder & CEO of Synadia Communications
Derek Collison is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Synadia Communications. An industry veteran and pioneer in large-scale distributed systems and enterprise computing, Derek founded Apcera and has held executive positions at VMware, Google and TIBCO Software. Derek created NATS.io and CloudFoundry as well as TIBCO’s messaging systems. As Chief Technology Officer and Chief Architect of Cloud Application Platforms at VMware, he co-founded the cloud computing group and designed and architected Cloud Foundry, the industry’s first open PaaS. During Derek’s time at Google, he co-founded the AJAX APIs group. Prior to Google, Derek spent more than a decade at TIBCO, where he designed and implemented a wide range of messaging products, including Rendezvous and EMS. As TIBCO’s Senior Vice President and Chief Architect, Derek led technical and strategic product direction and delivery. Derek is a sought after speaker and collaborator. Derek holds more than 20 software patents and is a recognized leader in distributed systems design and architecture, as well as emerging cloud platforms. Derek earned a Bachelor’s degree with honors in Computer Science from the University of Maryland.
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About Covaxx, Heavybit, NATS, Savonix, Synadia Communications, Vicarious, Xperiel: Powering the secure connective technologies to drive cloud and edge native
David Selinger
Co-Founder & CEO of Deep Sentinel
David Selinger founded RichRelevance in 2006 to give retailers the most advanced personalization platform for transforming customer data into extraordinary consumer experiences. RichRelevance is ranked #1 for personalization in both the Internet Retailer 500 and Internet Retailer EU 250, and currently drives over one billion real-time decisions every day. David has led the company through four acquisitions and introduced multiple product lines to create new business value from data through personalization. Both RichRelevance and David (known as Selly to his friends and colleagues) are known for their innovation in this space—delighting consumers, generating revenue and profit for retailers, and creating an award-winning company; RichRelevance has been recognized by numerous publications as a top place to work by employee surveys. An early pioneer in data analytics and personalization, David previously led the research and development arm of Amazon’s Data Mining and Personalization team. In that role, David developed and deployed three new recommender systems that increased Amazon’s annual profit by over $50 million (25% of US profit, 2003), setting the industry standard for recommendation services. David also cofounded Redfin, a venture backed, industry-leading real estate search/brokerage company, where he helped to build the world’s first real-time mapping and real estate data analytics engine. Recognized as a “40-under-40” innovator in the San Francisco region and amongst direct marketers, David holds a broad collection of patents in customer segmentation, analytics and data mining, including over a dozen pioneered at RichRelevance. He received his BS in Computer Science from Stanford University, and is active in social change, serving on the board of directors of Potential Energy, and as an advisor to the Family Giving Tree, Fostering Change for Children and Solace International.
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About Deep Sentinel, Palindrome Advisors, Silicon Climate: Deep Sentinel is a home security company that produces a series of cameras powered by deep learning that can evaluate threats on a property.
Chase Harmer
Chief Executive Officer of PayCertify
Integrity, honesty, and longevity. Those are the qualities that have shaped Chase Harmer, a successful entrepreneur, leader, speaker, and innovator. For 15 years, Chase has built businesses, led companies, created products, and helped bring the best out of his employees. As a merchant services professional, Chase has launched several companies and products—such as MLS Hotel, Power Payments, Payment Reservations, and Pay Certify—that focus on hotel and e-commerce verticals. His companies process transactions and create software products that help increase cash flow and longevity of merchant accounts in those industries.
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About PayCertify: The PayCertify Companies Inc. is an All-In-One payments co and digital wallet with a family of brands and services in the US, EU and CA.
Elias Manousos
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of RiskIQ
Elias is a recognized expert in Internet security and fraud prevention. He has been developing and delivering enterprise protection technologies for more than 15 years. As CEO of RiskIQ, he has spearheaded a new approach that helps Internet, financial services, healthcare, media and consumer packaged goods companies protect their brands from online fraud. Elias is also co-chair of the Online Trust Alliance (OTA) Anti-Malvertising Working Group and is responsible for Malvertisements.com, the first and only public database documenting malvertising incidents on a continuous basis. Prior to RiskIQ, Elias was VP of R&D at Securant Technologies (acquired by RSA), which pioneered identity and access management for web applications. At Securant, he was instrumental in creating now-commonplace technologies for single sign-on (SSO) security.
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About RiskIQ: RiskIQ is a security company that provides digital threat management solutions for software vendors.
Amir Khan
President , CEO & Founder of Alkira
Amir Khan brings decades of experience in the networking industry and has a proven track record of forming teams to deliver products in both the Enterprise & Service Provider space. Prior to vIPtela, Amir was senior director of product management at Juniper Networks with P&L responsibility for Juniper’s Enterprise routing portfolio comprised of MX & M series. At Juniper, Amir led Juniper’s foray into the Enterprise routing space with focus on Data-Center, Campus and Wide Area. Under Amir’s leadership, Juniper grew its Enterprise business to multiple 100s of millions of dollars in 3 years. Prior to Juniper, Amir was at Cisco and led their IOS routing software, Desktop switching and NG wiring closet strategy. Amir has also held multiple leadership positions in product management and marketing at Procket (core routing), Nortel (Accelar & Passport) and Bay Networks. Amir has a MS degree in Computer Engineering from University of Colorado at Boulder. He is an avid squash player and has completed a Triathlon.
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About Alkira: Alkira offers a hybrid/multi-cloud network with network services, visibility, and governance.
Gidi Cohen
Chief Executive Officer & Founder of Skybox Security
Gidi Cohen co-founded Skybox in 2002 and has been instrumental in building awareness and adoption of Security Risk Management solutions in the marketplace. A noted expert on the business and technical implications of network security, risk management, and modeling and simulation technologies, Gidi Cohen is a frequent speaker at security conferences. Prior to Skybox, Cohen was the CEO and co-founder of Vigil Technologies, Inc. bringing to market analytic solutions for Global 2000 companies. Gidi Cohen also served as an officer in the IDF Intelligence Corps, leading an elite software development unit developing information security solutions. Gidi Cohen holds Bachelors of Science and Master of Science degrees in Computer Sciences and Mathematics from Tel Aviv University.
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About Skybox Security: Skybox Security is a global leader in security analytics for cybersecurity management.
Neil Serebryany
CEO of Calypso AI
Neil is the founder and the CEO of Calypso.
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About Calypso AI: Calypso AI provides a platform that allows organizations to accelerate their use of AI technologies.
Russ Heddleston
Co-founder & CEO of Dropbox DocSend
Russ is the Co-founder and CEO of DocSend, a service for securely sending and tracking documents that has over 9,000 customers. He was previously a product manager at Facebook, where he arrived via the acquisition of his startup Pursuit.com, and has held roles at Dropbox, Microsoft, and Trulia. Russ holds a BS/MS in Computer Science from Stanford and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About Dropbox DocSend: Dropbox DocSend is a secure document sharing and tracking solution that helps companies share business-critical documents with ease.
Jordan Brandt
Co-founder & CEO of Inpher.io
Jordan Brandt is CEO at Inpher.io.
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About Inpher.io: Inpher.io is a secret computing technology for privacy-preserving machine learning and AI.
Rick Song
Co-Founder & CEO of Persona
Rick Song is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Persona.
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About Persona: Persona is an identity platform that helps business verify customer identities that brings trust to online interactions.
Wendell Brown
CEO & Chairman of Averon
Wendell Brown is the CEO, Chairman and co-founder of Averon. He is a prolific innovator whose creative triumphs include building a global VoIP solution (acquired by Microsoft), founding America’s largest online voicemail platform solution (acquired by AOL), and co-founding Liveops, America’s largest virtual work-at-home call center (honored by the White House in 2010), all of which contribute to the advancement of technology and betterment of society. Wendell is proud of his unique blend of Ashkenazi Jewish heritage and West Virginia roots, where his family tree dates back to the Mayflower era. After enjoying his upbringing in the northernmost Appalachian town of Oneonta, he attended Cornell University, earning a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science. Wendell then followed his dreams to Silicon Valley, initially gaining success as a popular video game designer (including blockbuster hits such as Star Wars, Beauty & The Beast, and Nova Blast) and soon thereafter he created the first C-compiler for Mac. Later, as the creator of one of the world’s first mass-market cybersecurity products, WalkSoftly (acquired by Intel), then as a pioneer of work-at-home call centers (Liveops), which greatly increase employment opportunities for veterans and workers with disabilities, and today as the leader of Averon, Wendell’s innovations continue to empower and improve the lives of countless people around the world. He enjoys participating as a speaker, tech judge and advisor in a wide range of communities including the World Economic Forum, DLD Munich & Tel Aviv, XPRIZE, Burning Man, TED, the MITA Tech Talks and more. Wendell is a licensed private pilot, and has been active in the development of new airplane and electric vehicle designs. A strong believer in giving back, he’s created scholarships for underprivileged students, and is a proud founding member of the Human Rights Campaign. In his (rare) spare time, Wendell enjoys international explorations, having visited more than 30 countries as of 2019, and spending quality time at home with his treasured family including beloved Italian greyhound, Magic.
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About Averon: Averon is the developer of the Direct Autonomous Authentication (DAA), the first fully automatic, secure mobile identity standard
Timothy Eades
CEO of vArmour
With over 20 years of leadership experience in sales, marketing, and executive management at the CEO level, Tim has deep expertise in driving high growth for computing, security and enterprise software companies. Tim joined vArmour as CEO in October, 2013. Prior to that, he was the CEO at Silver Tail Systems from March, 2010 until the company was acquired by RSA, the security division of EMC in late 2012. Prior to leading Silver Tail Systems, Tim was CEO of Everyone.net, an SMB focused SaaS company that was acquired by Proofpoint. Tim has also held sales and marketing executive leadership positions at BEA Systems, Sana Security, Phoenix Technologies and IBM. Tim holds advanced degrees in business, international marketing, and financial analysis, primarily from Solent University in England.
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About Cyber Mentor Fund, vArmour: VArmour offers data defined perimeter security solutions for mobile, virtual, and cloud platforms.
Tim Junio
Co-Founder & CEO of Expanse
Tim has over a decade of operational and academic experience in cybersecurity and large-scale distributed sensing. Prior to co-founding Qadium, he worked at DARPA, RAND Corporation, Office of the Secretary of Defense, and CIA. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University and remains an affiliate,occasionally lecturing and mentoring students on cybersecurity. Tim holds a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, and Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees from Johns Hopkins University.
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About Expanse: Expanse is an enterprise software company that provides an updated view of all internet-connected assets that belong to an organization.
Daniel Barber
CEO & Co-founder of DataGrail
Daniel Barber is the CEO & Co-founder of DataGrail. Prior to DataGrail, Daniel built and led go-to-market teams at Responsys (acquired by Oracle), ToutApp (acquired by Marketo), Node.io, Datanyze (ZoomInfo), and DocuSign.
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About DataGrail, Forbes Technology Council, GTM Orchestration: DataGrail is a data privacy startup that helps businesses navigate the growing array of privacy regulations.
Founder & CEO of Cyral
Manav Mital is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Cyral and Instart Logic. Previously, he worked with Aster Data, where he led the design of major components of their flagship product, including the core database engine and all query processing. Aster Data, a pioneer in the big data market, was acquired by Teradata Corp for $263M. Before Aster, Manav was part of Yahoo’s Web Search team, where he helped in designing and building systems to improve search rankings by better web page classification. Manav has a MS in Computer Science from UCLA and a BS in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
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About Cyral, Instart: Cyral is the first cloud-native solution that makes it easy to observe, control, and protect the data cloud.
Sean Li
CEO & Co-founder of Magic
CEO @ Magic
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About Magic: Plug and play auth that grows with you
Patrick Peterson
Founder & CEO of Agari
Patrick Peterson is Agari’s visionary Founder and CEO, who has spent more than 15 years securing the email ecosystem. Peterson founded Agari in 2009, when he saw a real need in the industry for a solution that would secure the email channel. Under his leadership as Chief Executive Officer, he has developed the company’s industry-changing security platform that now protects many of the world’s largest enterprises from email threats. Prior to Agari, Peterson joined IronPort Systems and invented IronPort’s SenderBase, the industry’s first reputation service.
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About Agari: Agari is an email identity company protecting enterprises and people from phishing and socially-engineered attacks.
Simon Biddiscombe
President and CEO of MobileIron
Simon Biddiscombe is the president and CEO of MobileIron. Prior to becoming the CEO, Simon served as the CFO of the company.
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About MobileIron: MobileIron offers a mobile-centric, zero trust security approach that verifies user, device, application, network, and security threat.
Jesper Andersen
CEO & President of Infoblox
A seasoned networking and software industry executive with a track record of building large businesses, Jesper is the leader of Infoblox, responsible for the company’s continuing growth and innovation. Prior to joining Infoblox in December 2014, he served in a number of roles at Cisco Systems, including senior vice president for network management. Previously, he held senior management positions at Oracle, PeopleSoft, Pivotal Software and Computer Resources International.
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About Infoblox: Infoblox develops network identity solutions enabling businesses to automate network control functions to reduce costs and boost security.
Jayanth Gummaraju
CEO & Co-Founder of Banyan Security
Jayanth Gummaraju has over a decade of experience in inventing, designing and building complex computer systems. Prior to founding Banyan, Jayanth worked at VMware where, along with a couple of colleagues, he started VMFork (Instant Clone) and Serengeti (Big Data) projects, and invented some of the key technologies powering vSphere Integrated Containers (VIC) and vSphere Big Data Extensions (BDE). He holds many patents and has published several papers in top tier conferences in the areas of distributed systems, virtualization, and security. He is also a recipient of several awards related to innovation throughout his academic and professional career. Jayanth received his PhD from the Computer Systems Lab. at Stanford University, MS from Univ. of Maryland, College Park, and BE from BITS, Pilani, India.
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About Banyan Security: Banyan Security provides a zero trust network access platform for hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Steven (Seven) Waterhouse
CEO, and Co-founder of Orchid Labs
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About Fabric Ventures, Orchid Labs: Orchid Labs is an open-source project committed to ending surveillance and censorship on the internet.
Syed Ali
CEO, President, & Founder of Cavium
Syed B. Ali is one of our founders and has served as our President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the board of directors since the inception of the company in 2000. From 1998 to 2000, Mr. Ali was Vice President of Marketing and Sales at Malleable Technologies, a communication chip company of which he was a founding management team member. Malleable Technologies was acquired by PMC Sierra, a communication IC company in 2000. From 1994 to 1998, Mr. Ali was an Executive Director at Samsung Electronics where he started the Flash memory and CPU businesses and put together the business plans that drove sales in each line to over a $100M in less than two years. Prior to that, he had various positions at Wafer Scale Integration, a division of SGS-Thompson, Tandem Computer, and American Microsystems. He received a BSEE from Osmania University, in Hyderabad, India and an M.S.E from the University of Michigan.
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About Alif Semiconductor, Cavium: Cavium Networks develops and markets semiconductor processors for intelligent and secure networks.
Pravin Kothari
Founder & CEO of CipherCloud
Pravin Kothari is the founder and CEO of CipherCloud.He founded CipherCloud in 2010 when he recognized that while the cloud was disrupting enterprise IT with explosive growth, the security technologies had not kept pace and enterprises were losing control over their sensitive data. Pravin is driving the rapid growth of CipherCloud by managing its business, strategy, and operations. Pravin is a security visionary with more than 20 years of experience building industry-leading companies and bringing innovative products to market. Pravin was the Founder & CTO of Agiliance, a leading Security Risk Management company, and Co-founder & VP Engineering of ArcSight, a leading security company, which was acquired by HP for $1.6 billion. Previously, Pravin was Co-founder & Chief Architect at Impresse Corporation and also held technical leadership positions at Verity, Attachmate, and Tata Consultancy Services. Pravin holds over a dozen patents in security technologies and is the inventor behind CipherCloud’s groundbreaking cloud encryption technology.
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About CipherCloud, RiskVision: CipherCloud is a cloud security company that provides a platform that delivers data protection, compliance, and control.
Michael DeCesare
CEO and President of Exabeam
Michael DeCesare is the CEO and president of Exabeam, a leading security analytics and automation company. Prior to Exabeam, he was CEO and president of ForeScout Technologies, a company that offers Global 2000 enterprises and government organizations the ability to see devices. He was previously the president at McAfee. DeCesare served as the senior vice president of worldwide field operations at EMC Software Group before which he held the same position at EMC Documentum. He also worked as the EVP of worldwide sales and alliances at Oracle. DeCesare holds a bachelor’s degree from Villanova University.
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About Exabeam, ForeScout Technologies: Exabeam helps security teams outsmart the odds by adding intelligence to their existing security tools.
Jad Boutros
CEO, Co-Founder of TerraTrue
Jad is the CEO and co-founder at TerraTrue. Previously, he was the Chief Security Officer at Snap Inc where he led security, privacy engineering and spam and abuse. Jad worked at Google for over 9 years conducting application security reviews, developing robust security defenses, and managing security. Jad holds a Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from McGill University and a Master’s in computer science from Stanford University.
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About TerraTrue: TerraTrue is a privacy platform designed to work with product development.
Sridhar Vembu
CEO and Founder of Zoho
Sridhar Vembu is the CEO of [Zoho Corp.](/organization/zoho) (formerly AdventNet Inc.), the company behind the Zoho suite of online applications. He co-founded AdventNet in 1996, and has been CEO since 2000. AdventNet has transformed itself from a modest beginning as a software company serving network equipment vendors to a be an innovative online applications provider. It has maintained growth and profitability, without needing outside capital. Prior to AdventNet, Sridhar worked as a wireless systems engineer at Qualcomm, Inc. where he was fortunate to work with some of the leading minds in wireless communications. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University.
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About Site24x7, Zoho: Zoho offers a suite of business, collaboration, and productivity applications.
Francis Dinha
Founder & CEO of OpenVPN
Francis Dinha has been key in orchestrating growth at OpenVPN Technologies, by building a viable business model to assure the Company’s continued success. Before he founded OpenVPN Technologies, Inc., he was the CEO at Iraq Development and Investment projects where he played a principal role in architecting a joint venture to win the mobile communication license in Iraq and syndicated $50 million in equity and debt financing from various entities. He was also the founder and CTO of PacketStream, Inc. where he secured more than $5 million in equity financing. Francis Dinha has a master of science in computer engineering from the University of Linkoping in Sweden.
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About OpenVPN: OpenVPN Technologies provides premier VPN security software and web-scale VPN service based on open source innovation.
Garrett Larsson
Co-founder & CEO of Rhombus Systems
Garrett is currently the co-founder and CEO of Rhombus Systems which provides cloud managed video security to enterprises. Previously, Garrett co-founded Mojave Networks which specialized in web and mobile security and was later acquired by Sophos. Before Asurion, Garrett co-founded Lumitrend which was sold to Asurion and became Asurion Mobile Applications. Garrett has a BS from Stanford University.
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About Rhombus Systems: Rhombus provides cloud managed video security for enterprises that is intelligent and doesn’t require complicated servers or NVR’s.
Jack Wu
Co-Founder & CEO of Nightingale Security
Jack Wu joined Nightingale Security as Co-Founder & CEO in 2014.
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About Nightingale Security: Nightingale Security is a autonomous drone solution in aerial robotic security.
Lisa Falzone
CEO & Co-Founder of Athena Security
Lisa Falzone is the Co-Founder & CEO of Athena Security, an award-winning Gun Detection solution enterprises. Since starting the company from the ground up in 2017, Falzone has been a trailblazer in technology. She is spearheading her last company Revel Systems which rasied over 100m in funding and a evalution over 500m. Revel’s mission was to help entrepreneurs around the world build their dream business.
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About Athena Security: Athena’s mission is to save lives by preventing crimes like active shooter situations with AI Gun Detection Software and detecting a fever.
Orion Hindawi
CEO & Co-Founder of Tanium
Orion Hindawi co-founded Tanium in 2007 and serves as its chief executive officer. Orion leads product strategy and development of the Tanium Platform, in addition to all customer-facing technical operations and management functions. A technology visionary and accomplished inventor, Orion has led the development of enterprise-scale endpoint security and management platforms for the past 18 years at BigFix, Inc. (acquired by IBM in 2010) and Tanium, in addition to holding multiple software patents in the areas of network communications and systems management. Orion works closely with Tanium customers on a daily basis in the pursuit of inventing new approaches for solving the significant challenges IT departments face securing and managing large, global enterprise environments. Orion also serves on the Tanium Board of Directors.
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About Tanium: Tanium is a security and systems management platform allowing real-time data collection at an enterprise scale.
Tony Huie
Co-Founder & CEO of Twingate
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About SignalFire, Twingate: Twingate provides businesses and their distributed workforces with modern, secure remote access to private resources.
Ray Kruck
Founder and CEO of Tugboat Logic
Ray Kruck cofounded Nexgate in 2011 with a breakthrough platform to help brands discover, monitor, and secure their social presence. Nexgate was acquired by Proofpoint (NASDAQ: PFPT) as their largest acquisition in 2014. Prior to Nexgate, Ray held executive and leadership positions in corporate development, strategy, and sales at Check Point Software, Websense, and Voltage Security (acquired by HP). Since Nexgate, Ray cofounded Pointgrey Partners, an early-stage venture investment firm focused on deep technology plays that drive competitive disruption in enterprise and life science markets. Ray is passionate about helping founders build go-to market ecosystems that enable leveraged sales models with strategic partners. Ray is a University of Toronto B.Comm graduate and holds an MBA from University of British Columbia.
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About Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), Tugboat Logic: Tugboat Logic address the skills and expertise gap in the security and compliance industry.
Ram Varadarajan
Founder, Chairman and CEO of Acalvio Technologies
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About Acalvio Technologies: Acalvio provides Advanced Threat Defense (ATD) solutions to detect, engage, and respond to malicious activity inside the perimeter.
Vishaal Hariprasad
Chief Executive Officer of Resilience
Vishaal Hariprasad is a co-founder at Arceo.ai.
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About Resilience, Resilience: Resilience is a cyber insurance provider that offers organizations the tools, guidance, and solutions to insure and secure their data.
Idan Tendler
CEO & Co-founder of Bridgecrew
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About Bridgecrew: Bridgecrew is a developer of a codified cloud security platform used to help organizations deploy cloud security engineering.
Evan Reiser
CEO & Co-founder of Abnormal Security
Evan is the CEO and co-founder of Abnormal Security. He most recently led product and machine learning teams at Twitter after co-founding successful companies including Bloomspot (acquired by JPM Chase) and AdStack (acquired by TellApart).
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About Abnormal Security: Abnormal Security is an email security company that protects enterprises and organizations from targeted email attacks.
Aidan McCarty
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Unum ID
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About Be Heard, Unum ID: Unum ID is the ID card network.
Naftali Harris
Co-Founder & CEO of SentiLink
Naftali Harris is co-founder and CEO of SentiLink, which is ending synthetic fraud. He previously was the first data scientist hired at Affirm, and later grew and managed the Risk Decisioning team, which was responsible for all production risk systems including the credit and fraud models.
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About SentiLink: SentiLink is an identity verification technology company that helps in detecting and blocking synthetic identities.
Ashish Gupta
CEO and President of Bugcrowd
Ashish drives strategy for global corporate and product marketing at Infoblox, including brand awareness, go-to-market programs, and demand generation initiatives. With more than 20 years of general management experience,Ashish specializes in creating new markets and categories, positioning companies for growth, and developing differentiated business strategies in highly competitive industries. He joined Infoblox from Actian, where he was CMO and SVP of business development. Previously, he held leadership positions at Vidyo, Microsoft, Alcatel/Genesys Telecommunications, Telera, Deloitte Consulting, and Hewlett-Packard.
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About Bugcrowd, Infoblox: Bugcrowd harnesses the power of a global community of security researchers to surface critical software vulnerabilities.
Snehal Antani
Co-Founder & CEO of Horizon3.ai
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About Horizon3.ai: Horizon3.ai leverages autonomous Pentesting to proactively find and fix vulnerabilities before criminals exploit them.
Christina Cacioppo
CEO of Vanta
Christina Cacioppo is the chief executive officer of Vanta.
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About Vanta: Vanta is an automated security monitoring platform that helps companies get SOC 2, HIPAA, or ISO 27001 certified quickly.
Ryan Noon
Co-Founder & CEO of Material Security
Ryan Noon currently works as the CEO for Material Security. He previously worked at Dropbox as the Engineering Manager.
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About Material Security: Material Security is an email security company that develops data-driven security software to protect an organization’s users and data.
Keith Waddell
President and CEO of Robert Half International
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About Robert Half International: Robert Half is a professional services company and is the world’s first and largest accounting and finance staffing firm.
Guy Bejerano
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of SafeBreach
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About SafeBreach: SafeBreach executes active breach scenarios and performs continuous validation to find holes in an environment before an attacker does.
Victor Fang
Founder and CEO of AnChain.ai
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About AnChain.ai: AnChain.AI : Next Generation AI-powered Cryptocurrency Anti-Money Laundering
Zuk Avraham
Founder, CEO of zecOps
Zuk Avraham is a world-renowned white-hat security researcher, 2X entrepreneur, angel investor, the founder and Chairman of mobile security company Zimperium, Inc. and the founder and CEO of ZecOps, Inc. An innate hacker with a passion for detecting code vulnerabilities, Zuk started his career as a security researcher in the IDF before being recruited by Samsung Electronics, where he published the first return-oriented programming technique for ARM architecture at DEFCON 18 and Blackhat. His security work has been the subject of academic research and is often quoted in leading publications such as Forbes, MIT Technology Review, TIMES and Engadget. Founded in 2010, Zimperium have already earned innovation awards for their cutting-edge enterprise Mobile IPS and considered the leader in Mobile Threat Defense. Since its foundation, Zimperium raised more than $70m in capital from top-tier investors, helped many Fortune 500 companies to secure their mobile fleet and has more than 100 employees globally. Zuk and his team have pioneered many new security approaches, including signature-independent protection. In July 2017, Zuk founded ZecOps, Inc. Stealth mode cyber security firm.
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About zecOps, Zimperium: ZecOps is a cybersecurity automation company that finds attackers’ mistakes.
Belsasar Lepe
CEO & Co-Founder of Cerby
Belsasar (Bel) is co-founder and CEO of Cerby. He previously was Head of Product at Impira, where he led the company’s Product Life Cycle, helping drive a 4x increase in revenue. Prior to his role at Impira, Bel was co-founder and CTO at Ooyala where he led a global product, design, and engineering team of 300+ Ooyalans spanning five countries and seven offices. Ooyala achieved two successful exits totaling over $440M. Bel began his career as an engineer at Google working on Enterprise Collaboration products and studied Computer Science at Stanford University. He is an active advisor and investor in start ups, with a specific focus in Latin America.
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About Cerby: Cerby is a cybersecurity company focused on helping enterprises harness Shadow IT.
Ambuj Kumar
CEO of Fortanix
Ambuj Kumar is co-founder and CEO of Fortanix, Inc., the Runtime Encryption company, whose mission is to solve cloud security and privacy. Ambuj is a recognized leader in cryptography with more than 30 patents in the field. Prior to founding Fortanix, Ambuj was lead architect at Cryptography Research Inc. where he led and developed many of the company’s security technologies that go into millions of devices every year. Previously, he worked for NVIDIA where he designed world’s most advanced computer chips including world’s fastest memory controller. Fortanix has established itself as a leader in Runtime Encryption with strategic partnerships with IBM and Equinix.
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About Fortanix: Fortanix solves cloud security and privacy using Runtime Encryption(R) technology build upon Intel SGX.
Kumar Mehta
Co-Founder/CDO/Chief Soul Officer and Former CEO of Versa Networks
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About Versa Networks: Versa is the SASE leader
Marcin Kleczynski
CEO of Malwarebytes
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About Malwarebytes: Cybersecurity solution that protects people and businesses against dangerous threats such as malware, ransomware, and exploits
Tim Keeler
Founder & CEO of Remediant
Timothy Keeler is the co-founder and CEO of Remediant.
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About Remediant: Remediant provides enterprises with Privileged Access Management (PAM) software to help them protect their accounts from misuse and abuse.
Jay Kaplan
CEO and Co-Founder of Synack
Jay co-founded Synack after serving in several security-related capacities at the Department of Defense, including the DoD’s Incident Response and Red Team. Prior to founding Synack, Jay was a Senior Cyber Analyst at the National Security Agency (NSA), where his focus was supporting counterterrorism-related intelligence operations. Jay received a BS in Computer Science with a focus in Information Assurance and a MS in Engineering Management from George Washington University studying under a DoD/NSA-sponsored fellowship. Jay holds a number of security certifications from ISC(2) and GIAC.
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About Synack: Synack is a crowdsourced security platform that utilizes augmented intelligence to discover and secure vulnerable applications.
Stephen Russell
CEO & Founder of Prism Skylabs
Steve Russell is a Silicon Valley veteran with 15 years of experience in building and managing disruptive content networking, video search, and video intelligence technology companies. Steve is CEO and Founder of Prism Skylabs, the global leader in visually understanding and optimizing offline commerce. Its unique cloud service transforms any video camera into a visual merchandising, auditing, and business intelligence tool that can be accessed from any device. Prior to Prism Skylabs, Steve served as the CEO and Chairman of 3VR, the world’s leading video intelligence company, which he founded in 2002. In less than 10 years, Steve took 3VR from a small group of engineers working in his basement to an industry leader serving global customers including Wells Fargo, T-Mobile, GAP, Hilton, and many more of the world’s leading brands. Before 3VR, Steve was VP and GM of the Content Networking group at Internet search giant Inktomi. In 2000, Inktomi Acquired eScene Networks, a consumer video management platform company he founded. In addition, he also served as managing partner at USWeb/CKS (later marchFIRST) and President of a pioneering Silicon Valley ISP. Steve is an early investor and advisor to a number of companies across the video intelligence, social media and analytics spaces, including StumbleUpon, LongTail Video, MesmoTV, Qumu, OpenDNS and UberCab, among others. He also sits on the Board of the Center for Secure Information Technologies and is an active speaker and writer, posting frequently on his blog, InHardFocus.com, which explores the many intersections of technology and society. Steve holds 11 patents and was named #8 in the American Venture’s Top 40 under 40™ list. He Studied Economics and Computer Science at Stanford University, where he graduated with honors and distinction and was the recipient of the university’s Anna Laura Meyers prize for outstanding research.
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About InHardFocus.com, Prism Insights Fund, Prism Skylabs: Prism is a cloud-based video intelligence platform that transforms video cameras into powerful business tools.
Varun Badhwar
Founder & CEO of RedLock
Varun Badhwar is the cofounder of CipherCloud where he is responsible for product strategy, product marketing, evangelism, and sales enablement. As a subject matter expert on cloud security, he is regularly invited to speak at a number of global industry conferences. Prior to joining CipherCloud, Varun was responsible for ensuring the security of the Force.com ecosystem at salesforce.com, which included over 1,500 partner applications. Prior to salesforce.com, he was a Consultant within the Risk Advisory Services group at KPMG, where he advised Fortune 500 Clients on managing IT security and privacy, operational risks, and alignment with overall business strategy. Varun earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Southern California, and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), and a Licensed Penetration Tester (LPT).
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About RedLock: RedLock develops an infrastructure security platform designed to provide deep security visibility for dynamic environments.
Robert Fly
Co Founder & CEO of Elevate Security
Robert Fly is an advisor at Qualia.
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About Elevate Security: Proactive Defense Against Insider Risk
Reed Taussig
CEO of RSA
Reed Taussig is President and Chief Executive Officer of ThreatMetrix. With expertise in building high-growth companies at the forefront of technological change, Taussig has led ThreatMetrix since 2008. Under his leadership the company has become the driving force in an emerging digital identity space by leveraging pioneering global shared intelligence technology. Taussig has extensive executive leadership experience, and prior to ThreatMetrix served as CEO of Callidus Software. Here, he was responsible for a successful IPO, having led the company from its inception, to establishing it as a profitable business with $70+ million in revenue. He has also served as CEO for Vormetric, Inc. and Inquirey.com.
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About Apptimize, Arkose Labs, ClearDATA, Marlin Equity Partners, RSA: RSA offers cybersecurity firm that offers address security, risk management & fraud challenges services.
Sovan Bin
CEO and Co-Founder of Odaseva
Sovan Bin founded Odaseva after 15 years of experience in the CRM industry. Recognized by his peers as one of the most experienced cloud architect for his vision around data, security, and performance; he was the 12th worldwide and 1st EMEA Salesforce Certified Technical Architect.
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About Odaseva: Odaseva is the leading Enterprise Data Platform for Salesforce offering powerful tools to keep Salesforce data protected
Dave Jevans
CEO of CipherTrace
Dave Jevans is a founder and CEO of CipherTrace. He has 20 years of experience in the security and payments markets. He is the holder of 17 US patents in cybersecurity, and has founded and sold three cybersecurity startups. In 2015, He sold mobile security pioneer Marble Security to Proofpoint (NASDAQ: PFPT). Before Marble, he founded IronKey, which was acquired by iMation (NASDAQ: IMN). Previously He founded Receipt.com (acquired by Valicert NASDAQ: VLCT). He has held senior management positions at security companies Tumbleweed Communications (NASDAQ: TMWD) and Teros (acquired by Citrix, NASDAQ: CTXS). He also serves as the chairman of the Anti-Phishing Working Group (www.APWG.org), a consortium of more than 1,500 government agencies, financial services companies, ISPs, law enforcement agencies and technology vendors dedicated to fighting electronic crime.
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About CipherTrace: CipherTrace is a cryptocurrency intelligence company that delivers delivers cryptocurrency AML compliance solutions.
Michael Zhao
CEO of Array Networks
Dr. Zhao brings to Array Networks more than 20 years worth of experience in executive roles at Internet infrastructure and systems integration companies. Most recently, Michael was founder and COO of Asia Info – a $500M systems integration company he led to a Nasdaq IPO. He is considered a major industry leader and holds a Ph.D. in Engineering from State University of New York at Buffalo and an MBA from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.
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About Array Networks, Zentry Security: Array Networks engages in application acceleration, secure access and cloud service delivery.
Rajesh Ramanand
Co-Founder & CEO of Signifyd
Rajesh Ramanand is the Founder and CEO of Signifyd, a payments validation company based out of Palo Alto, California. Most recently, Raj led Emerging Markets Risk at PayPal, responsible for managing fraud and credit risk in Latin America, the Middle East and Africa. Prior to PayPal, Raj was with FedEx for eight years, beginning at the FedEx Innovation Labs as an engineer. In addition to building Fedex’s package intercept system, Raj founded, built, and led their Risk Management Division for Payments and Shipping.
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About Signifyd: Signifyd is a provider of an enterprise-grade fraud technology solution for e-commerce stores.
Zouhair Belkoura
Founder, CEO of Keepsafe
Zouhair is a serial entrepreneur with an academic past and an infectious success drive. For his EE PhD, Zouhair researched novel video coding algorithms that reduce compression computations by 90% on mobile devices. He went on to build an online retail company (enamora.com) and brought it to several million in revenue before the exit. Aside from success, he also took away expertise on women’s underwear, so ask for fashion advice. At KeepSafe, Zouhair contributes code, image processing expertise and thought leadership in the privacy space. “I’d rather be surfing” is his preferred motto but you’ll find him at the office more often than at the beach. Zouhair drinks Beck’s but other beers will also do.
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About Keepsafe, Mobile Monkeys: KeepSafe is a cloud-based digital platform that allows users to control the privacy of their digital content.
Osh. Agabi
Founder & CEO of Koniku
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About : Koniku merges synthetic biology with silicon to build machines that detect smells. We cyborgs capable of detecting smell.
Joshua Stein
CEO of Harbor
As founding CEO, Stein is leading Harbor’s efforts to tokenize private securities and solve the compliance challenges of trading private securities on blockchains. He was previously general counsel and chief compliance officer at Zenefits, served as general counsel at OptumRx (a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group), was an Assistant U.S. Attorney, a federal judicial clerk and an Intelligence Officer for the U.S. Army.
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About Harbor: Harbor is helping to power the next big wave in capital markets – tokenized securities – by automating regulatory compliance.
David Gorodyansky
CEO of AnchorFree
Founder of AnchorFree Inc, David has been profiled among America’s Most Promising CEO’s by Forbes, selected by Inc magazine among the top 30 CEO’s Under 30 years old, profiled by Fortune, nominated for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award and named one of the 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs by Goldman Sachs. David built AnchorFree into a global leader in consumer privacy, security, and Internet Freedom with more than 650 million users downloading AnchorFree’s Hotspot Shield app globally. AnchorFree has played a role in some of the world’s most important events protecting millions of people from security and privacy breaches and disrupting censorship. AnchorFree has been selected by Forbes among America’s Most Promising Companies and among the Most Important Security Start-ups by Business Insider. In 2019, Fast Company named AnchorFree the 13th most innovative company in the world and the #1 most innovative security company. David raised $358 million in four financing rounds for AnchorFree from investors including WNDRCO, Accel, 8VC, SignalFire, Goldman Sachs and other bluechip investors. David is an active investor passionate about start-ups with a social mission focused on solving real world billion person problems. David is an investor and Board member @ www.GlobeIn.com (a marketplace connecting artisans from remote regions to global markets), an investor in Modern Meadow (a Company focused on engineering cultured leather and meat from stem cells to solve global food challenges), an investor in Pager (enabling doctor house visits – uber for doctors), an investor in ZecOps (enabling enterprise security), and an investor in #ChicagoGirl documentary which won the Amnesty International Award and awards at the Amsterdam & Berlin film festivals (the movie is about a 19 year old Syrian girl from Chicago using technology to play a role in the Syrian revolution). In 2012 David met with the US Supreme Court Justices as part of being selected for an award with the Academy of Achievement and later with three former US Secretaries of State: Hillary Clinton, Madeleine Albright, and Henry Kissinger.
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About AnchorFree: AnchorFree provides Hotspot Shield, an app that secures internet communication and user identity while providing access to internet content.
JT Giri
CEO & Co-Founder of nClouds
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About nClouds, nOps: nClouds is an award-winning provider of AWS and DevOps consulting and implementation services.
Jacob Hansen
Co-Founder & CEO of Cobalt
Jacob Hansen is the Co-Founder and CEO of Cobalt.io
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About Cobalt: Cobalt is a PTaaS platform that transforms traditional pentesting into a data-driven vulnerability management engine.
Duncan Greatwood
Chief Executive Officer of Xage Security
Most recently, Duncan was an executive at Apple, leading search-technology projects and products. Prior to Apple, Duncan was C.E.O. of Topsy, the pioneer in social media search and analytics acquired by Apple in 2013. Prior to Topsy, he was founder and C.E.O. of PostPath, the email and security company acquired by Cisco in 2008. Previously, Duncan held sales and marketing Vice President roles at Virata/Globespan/Conexant, as well as earlier engineering and marketing positions at Madge Networks. Duncan holds a B.A. (Mathematics) and M.Sc. (Computer Science) from Oxford University and an M.B.A. from London Business School.
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About Xage Security: Xage Security is an information technology company that offers blockchain-protected security platform for Industrial IoT.
Jonathan Chin
Co-Founder and CEO of Bannerman
Jonathan Chin is Founder at Bannerman.
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About Bannerman: A physical security pioneer, Bannerman has created the world’s first ever security marketplace, syncing clients and security professionals.
Umur Cubukcu
Founder and CEO of Citus Data
Umur Cubukcu is a Founder & CEO at Citus Data
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About Citus Data, Microsoft: Citus Data horizontally scales PostgreSQL, taking relational power further for real-time data.
Mark Tolliver
Chief Executive Officer of Palamida
As CEO, Mark leads corporate strategy and growth. A well-known speaker and industry visionary, he brings over 30 years expertise in global high-tech marketing, product and business strategy to the team. Prior to joining Palamida, Mark spent ten years with Sun Microsystems. During his tenure he was executive vice president, marketing and strategy, as well as chief strategy officer responsible for corporate marketing, product and business strategy, M&A, industry marketing and ISV programs. Previous to Sun, Mark served as President and general manager of iPlanet, a strategic alliance between Sun and AOL Time Warner focused on Internet infrastructure software. iPlanet became a division of Sun in March 2002. Throughout his career he has held senior level executive positions in marketing that included MasPar Computer Corporation and Hewlett-Packard Company. Mark holds an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago and a B.S.E.E. from the University of Illinois.
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About Palamida: Palamida provides application security solutions for open-source software.
Edgard Capdevielle
President & CEO of Nozomi Networks
Edgard brings an extensive background in successfully managing and expanding markets for both start-ups and established technology companies to his role as CEO. Previously he was Vice President of Product Management and Marketing for Imperva, where he led teams that made the company’s web and data security products leaders in their space. Prior to that he was a key executive at storage companies Data Domain and EMC. Focused on developing Nozomi Networks’ global business, Edgard’s tremendous passion, energy, vision and drive-to-win is being brought to bear on guiding Nozomi Networks to its next stage of development. Edgard has a MBA from the University of California at Berkeley and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from Vanderbilt University.
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About Nozomi Networks: Nozomi Networks offers cybersecurity and operational visibility solutions for industrial control systems.
Siddhartha Gavirneni
CEO & Co-Founder of Zeguro
Sidd Gavirneni is the CEO & Co-Founder at Zeguro.
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About Zeguro: Zeguro is a cyber insurance startup focusing on helping small businesses mitigate their cyber risks.
John De Santis
Chairman & CEO of HyTrust
John De Santis is the CEO & Board Chairman of HyTrust Inc. He has operated at the bleeding edge of innovation and business transformation for over 30 years – with international and US based experience at venture-backed technology start-ups as well as large global public companies. Most recently, Mr. De Santis was VP, Cloud Services for VMware. He joined VMware after being Chairman and CEO of TriCipher, a software security infrastructure company acquired by VMware in 2010. He led TriCipher’s transformation from a specialized niche provider of secure authentication solutions to the leading innovator in cloud based identity services for web application and SaaS access management. Convergys Corporation) where he was Vice President, European Operations, responsible for delivering operational support systems and business process re-engineering to newly deregulated European telecommunication service providers. When he was 28 years old, he co-founded an optical fiber networking start up which built the first commercial application of optical channel networking for IBM mainframes. Prior to TriCipher, Mr. De Santis served as CEO of enterprise security software company, Sygate Technologies, from 2000 until its acquisition by Symantec in 2005. Sygate’s innovations continue to provide the foundational technology for Symantec’s Endpoint Protection business. Prior to joining Sygate, he was SVP for Network Computing Devices (a leading thin client manufacturer), where he was responsible for all Worldwide Sales, Marketing, and Service operations. Prior to NCD, he was with Cincinnati Bell Information Systems (now Mr. De Santis earned an AB in Philosophy from Fairfield University and completed the Stanford University Executive Institute Program for Management of High-Tech Companies. De Santis is currently on the Board of Neohapsis, the premier provider of security, governance, risk and compliance services to highly regulated enterprises and government agencies. Previously, he was on the Boards of Tablus (data leakage protection software – acquired by RSA), Applied Identity (identity based access control software – acquired by Citrix).
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About HyTrust: HyTrust specializes in security, compliance and control software for private, hybrid and public cloud infrastructure.
Jack Naglieri
CEO, Founder of Panther Labs
Jack Naglieri is a professional with a passion for information security, cloud infrastructure, and security software. His exposure in security began as an incident responder for Verisign. After graduation from George Mason University, he moved to the San Francisco Bay area and spent two years at Yahoo as an incident responder. He later transitioned into a security engineering role, with the challenge of deploying security monitoring tools at massive scale. In 2016, he joined Airbnb, and open sourced a framework that enables real-time data analysis and alerting at scale called StreamAlert. He managed a team of engineers further developing detection and response infrastructure at Airbnb. Now, he has left to start his own company, Panther Labs, to help companies stay secure in the cloud-first world.
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About Panther Labs: Panther Labs is a cloud-scale security analytics company that develops infrastructure security and compliance platform.
Carson Sweet
Co-Founder & CEO of CloudPassage
Carson Sweet is co-founder and chief strategy officer for CloudPassage. As founding CEO, Carson led the team that created Halo, the patented security platform that changes the way enterprises achieve infrastructure protection and compliance. Carson’s information security career spans three decades and includes a broad range of entrepreneurial, management and hands-on technology experience. Carson and his teams have created groundbreaking security solutions across a range of industries and public sectors, with heavy focus on financial services, federal government, and high-tech. Carson focuses on long-term product, technology, and business strategy as CloudPassage expands market share through existing and emerging cloud security solutions. He also serves as chairman of the CloudPassage board of directors.
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About CloudPassage: CloudPassage offers a server security and compliance platform that works seamlessly across data centers and elastic infrastructure.
Adi Ruppin
Founder & CEO of Ananda Networks
Adi brings over twenty years of experience in information security to his role establishing the technological direction for the WatchDox platform. He has a track record of leading innovative security companies to market success. Prior to joining WatchDox, Adi served as vice president of marketing and business development at BeInSync, leading to its acquisition by Phoenix Technologies. Before that, he founded and served as CEO of SofaWare Technologies, a pioneer in the Unified Threat Management (UTM) space, which was acquired by Check Point. Adi has also worked as a consultant to many venture capital firms in the information security and Internet spaces. Adi holds a BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science and an MSc in Computers Science (Summa Cum Laude) from Tel Aviv University.
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About 8e14 Networks, Ananda Networks: Ananda Networks is a cloud-managed service that enables organizations to create their own private networks.
Patrick Coughlin
Co-Founder & CEO of TruSTAR
Patrick is a co-founder of ARTtwo50 where he focuses on community outreach and business operations. He is an MBA candidate at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. In his past life, he worked as a counterterrorism and security consultant for the US and allied governments in Washington DC, Afghanistan, the Middle East.
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About Booz Allen Hamilton, Global Security and Intelligence Strategies, Good Harbor Security Risk Management, LLC, Splunk, TruSTAR, Vango: TruSTAR is a cloud native Intelligence Management platform that transforms and automates data for security operations.
Yasyf Mohamedali
Co-Founder & CEO of Sym
Yasyf is a Master’s student studying computer science at MIT. Hailing from Vancouver, BC, he’s spent the past few years exploring new technologies, hacking on quirky side projects, and bringing together his academic and real-world engineering experiences to form a passion for entrepreneurship and technology startups. Most recently, Yasyf has spent time as chief software architect at Foxtrot, and as a summer intern at Square. He also spends time on campus spreading his passion as Sloan Business Club’s MD of Entrepreneurship. In the little free time he has, you’ll find Yasyf reading, pretending to be a foodie, and engaging in long, pointless debates with friends.
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About Sym: Sym is a security workflow platform that solves the intent-to-execution gap between policies and workflows.
Karim Toubba
CEO of Kenna Security
Karim Toubba is an experienced security technology executive who is passionate about innovation, leadership and solving complex problems that matter. Before joining Kenna, he was Vice President of Global Security Channels at Juniper Networks. Karim also served as Vice President of Products and Strategy for SBU at Juniper, a billion dollar security business, where he led product management, strategy, and technical marketing. Karim has led products, strategy and marketing in security for both large companies and startups. At Ingrian Networks he drove the company to over $22M in annual revenue in a 30 month window that led to the successful sale to SafeNet Inc. Prior to that he ran the $850M global products and services group at Digital Island which was acquired by Cable and Wireless. Karim brings proven leadership and innovation to the security market with a focus on creating products that solve real world challenges yet form the foundation for lasting change. He is inspired by a fast moving entrepreneurial culture built on the pillars of innovation and focus. Karim is a frequent speaker on panels, events and media outlets including Fox Business Network and Bloomberg TV.
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About Kenna Security: Kenna is a SaaS risk and vulnerability intelligence platform that accurately measures risk and prioritizes remediation efforts.
Michael Coates
Co-Founder & CEO of Altitude Networks
Michael is the former Chief Information Security Officer at Twitter. Previous roles include head of security for Mozilla, creator of Firefox web browser, and director of product security at Shape Security, a VC backed silicon valley startup that defends web applications against automated and bot attacks. Prior to these roles Michael spent many years providing security expertise to financial, enterprise, and telecommunications companies to analyze and strengthen their architecture and software applications. Michael also serves on the board of two nonprofit security organizations. Michael is the former chairman and a current member of the OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) board of global directors, an international non-profit organization represented in over 100 countries focusing on advancing techniques, tools, and practices for securing critical applications. Michael also serves on the board for the Vendor Security Alliance, a coalition of companies committed to improving Internet security. Michael has been frequently sought out for security commentary from organizations such as Bloomberg West, Wall Street Journal, and Venturebeat. Michael has also been featured as one of SC Magazine’s Influential IT security minds. In addition to his work at Twitter and nonprofit organizations, Michael is a strategic advisor for several technology startups. Michael holds a Master of Science degree in Computer, Information and Network Security from DePaul University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Michael resides in San Francisco with his wonderful wife, two children, and two dogs.
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About Altitude Networks, August Equity: Altitude Networks provides a cloud native DLP to protect Microsoft 365 & Google Workspace data from accidental loss or malicious theft.
Christy Wyatt
Chief Executive Officer of Absolute Software
Christy Wyatt is the chief executive officer of Absolute Software. She has held a variety of executive leadership roles at Dtex Systems, Good Technology (now Blackberry), Citigroup, Motorola, Apple, and Sun Microsystems. Christy has been named one of Inc. Magazine’s Top 50 Women Entrepreneurs of America, Information Security’s CEO of the Year, and one of the Fierce Wireless “Most Influential Women in Wireless.”
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About Absolute Software: Absolute Software creates endpoint resiliency solutions that enable organizations to secure their devices, data and users.
Chris Logan
CEO of 3GO
Chris has more than 30-years of experience building and scaling communication and cloud data services. Most recently, he held executive positions with JustAnswer, providing on-demand professional services. Chris also served in Senior Executive positions in Health Technology, SweetSpot Diabetes Care (purchased by NASDAQ: DXCM), LiveOps, and Avaya (NYSE: AVYA). Chris received his B.S. Degree in Engineering with an emphasis in Control Systems from the University of California, Davis.
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About 3GO, Hoist Fund LLC, justanswer.com: 3GO is a personalized security service that protects members from fraud, helping them maintain their online safety.
Manish Gupta
Founder & CEO of ShiftLeft
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About ShiftLeft, TiE: ShiftLeft delivers a new model for protecting cloud or data center hosted software.
Leigh Honeywell
CEO of Tall Poppy
Leigh Honeywell is the CEO and co-founder of Tall Poppy.
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About Tall Poppy: Tall Poppy builds tools and services to help companies protect their employees against online harassment and abuse.
Ron Victor
CEO and Founder of IoTium
Ron Victor is a Silicon-Valley based entrepreneur with 20 years of experience and expertise in both Fortune 100 companies and launching new ventures and start-ups. To-date, he has enabled raising more than $30 million in capital for multiple start-ups. He has founded and led three companies to successful exits. His latest venture, IoTium Inc., provides a secure, cloud-managed, easy-to-deploy Networking as a Service infrastructure for all IoT verticals. IoTium is the first secure network infrastructure company for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), allowing mission-critical environments to safely realize the promise of Industry 4.0. Prior to IoTium, Ron served as VP of Marketing and Business Development of Wireless Industrial Technologies, an Industrial IoT company providing IoT solutions for heavy industry such as aluminum smelters, copper tank houses, and more.
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About IoTium: IoTium simplifies establishing and managing secure network infrastructure for Industrial IoT.
